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People need to cope with the fact that no thought is original. Even Newton and Leibniz were having the same thoughts at the same time. Get over it.
People were effectively copying websites (especially ecommerce tutorials) and beating the original authors at SEO decades before ChatGPT 2.
People also got blown up before atomic bombs, but it's hard to argue that they weren't worth treating more seriously than a stick of dynamite. Sometimes being able to do something at a massively larger scale is a meaningful difference.
turns out plagiarism at scale can solve Erdos problems
AI is human knowledge at scale, wanting to be free. We built it, because we as humans intrinsically know that information should be free - always - and AI is a way to accomplish this, finally. Extrinsically, we also have a subset of humans who do not want information to be free, because they desire to profit from the divide between free/non-free information. I have been thinking a lot about Aaron Schwartz lately, and…
I don't know if this statement is more stupid or naive ..
The whole AI bubble is The Emperor's New Clothes, and it feels liek more people are finally admitting it.
> AI ... do some "learning" Is AI plural or is that a typo?
(For those not familiar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushism)
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AI has nothing to do with laziness or greediness. It makes things more efficient - and given that our time is limited strive for efficiency is a good thing.
If you can't see greed in the LLM sphere you are not looking very hard.